CM654S128-133 fails memtest

[technoshaman]

I purchased the above module as an upgrade about a year ago from a dealer with a 30-day return policy; it's run fine up to about three days ago. Ran MEMTEST, which repeatably and very quickly found multiple bad spots at the 176M mark in the bank (I had another 128mb DIMM which came with the original computer), which by my math puts it square on 48MB into this module. Rerunning memtest with substitute memory nets clean results.

 

(I do this sort of thing for a living; I'd run it thru work's corporate RMA process only we're not supposed to do that, so I'm stuck doing this the hard way :)

[Wired]

Have you tried the "bad" stick by itself, preferably in more than one slot so as to make sure it isn't a slot problem?

[technoshaman]

Have you tried the "bad" stick by itself, preferably in more than one slot so as to make sure it isn't a slot problem?

 

As I said, I tried a different stick in the same slot; memtest86 ran thru the entire pass without a glitch, some 30 minutes worth. It was consistently blowing up in about 15 seconds with this module.

 

It's Dead, Jim.

[Wired]

I purchased the above module as an upgrade about a year ago from a dealer with a 30-day return policy; it's run fine up to about three days ago. Ran MEMTEST, which repeatably and very quickly found multiple bad spots at the 176M mark in the bank (I had another 128mb DIMM which came with the original computer), which by my math puts it square on 48MB into this module. Rerunning memtest with substitute memory nets clean results.

As I said, I tried a different stick in the same slot.

 

Don't see that in the first post. Either way, Ram Guy will check out this thread later and most likely approve the RMA.

[RAM GUY]

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